A positive post, not about Haiti. One of the groups with whom I work just published a paper. It’s interesting in that it may be the first paper to describe the whole genome sequencing and analysis of an entire genus. Maybe. Or not. I can’t…
Just to get this out of the way: 23andme. There. Google has been fed Welcome, news-hungry bloggers with constantly running searches. I finally got my data yesterday, a full 11 weeks after my tube of spit was received. My whining was noticed, and eventually there…
I just sent a tube of spit to 23 and me. 23 and me are one of three companies already up and running with “personal genomics,” and I’m getting what passes for a thousand bucks worth of my genome analyzed. You give them a credit…
In this week’s Science, there’s a decent milestone in where we’re at in terms of integrating our molecular biology knowledge into classical genetics. If you subscribe, a summary is available here. Otherwise, use the “free sample issue” link. Basically, this group of scientists went back…
So, contrary to all good opinion and intention, I find myself back in the guts of the 10 year old C / C++ monstrosity that is BLAST. For those who aren’t bioinformatics geeks, BLAST is the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. It’s the very most…